{"id":4832,"date":"2014-12-19T14:04:26","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T13:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/hayek\/jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/?p=4832"},"modified":"2014-12-19T14:04:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T13:04:26","slug":"checking-fetchmails-log-file-for-sslfingerprint-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2014\/12\/19\/checking-fetchmails-log-file-for-sslfingerprint-complaints\/","title":{"rendered":"checking fetchmail&#8217;s log file for sslfingerprint complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/fetchmail\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/fetchmail<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/JochenHayek\/misc\/blob\/master\/fetchmail--extract_fingerprints.pl\">https:\/\/github.com\/JochenHayek\/misc\/blob\/master\/fetchmail&#8211;extract_fingerprints.pl<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Having run my log file analyser for a couple of days, I can only tell you, it&#8217;s a big relief to know, when\u00a0sslfingerprints are alright and when they are not and also how to fix them instantly.<\/p>\n<p>I am checking my e-mail not by looking at my dozens of IMAP folders, but I check my e-mail by looking at a procmail log file converted to look like a emacs diary, at least my special version of an emacs diary. My procmail log file &#8220;tailf viewer&#8221; stalls every now and then, because its &#8220;ssh father process&#8221; stalls. Right before restarting this procmail log file viewer is the right time to run my fetchmail log file checker.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, I would love to get informed of fetchmail\u00a0sslfingerprint problems instantly \u2013 why not through XMPP, i.e. sendxmpp?!! This kind of problem needs to get addressed w\/o undue delay.<\/p>\n<p>Remember: fetchmail mostly runs as a silent demon, fetching and forwarding e-mail, leaving messages in its log file \u2013 but who surveys fetchmail&#8217;s log file? I don&#8217;t think creating messages outside its log file is in the spirit of fetchmail, so there is really no alternative to surveying that log file. Have you already started?\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/fetchmail https:\/\/github.com\/JochenHayek\/misc\/blob\/master\/fetchmail&#8211;extract_fingerprints.pl Having run my log file analyser for a couple of days, I can only tell you, it&#8217;s a big relief to know, when\u00a0sslfingerprints are alright and when they are not and also how to fix them instantly. I am checking my e-mail not by looking at my dozens of IMAP folders, but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[666],"tags":[1291],"class_list":["post-4832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sendxmpp"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-1fW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}